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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.


J. Michael Straczynski

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C.S. LEWIS Timing is everything.
MOLLY SIMS Timing is everything.
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The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
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SHAKUNTALA DEVI Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.
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PETE DAVIDSON It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
CARINE ROITFELD Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ Ultimately love is everything.
M. SCOTT PECK sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
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ROALD DAHL You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
DAISAKU IKEDA Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD Funny is funny is funny.
BOB NEWHART Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
TOM LEHRER Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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JENNIFER WEINER The only thing impossible is the impossibility of the impossible
MICHAEL WILLIAM FINNEGAN If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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(SEE ...
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And not in the heart.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK If only…the saddest words in the English language.
KRISTAN HIGGINS Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
WILL ARNETT I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPS Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo...
WILL ARNETT Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS Is everything sad going to come untrue?
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you seek nothing, you'll earn everything; but if you seek everything, you'll earn nothing.
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MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business.
MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j...
MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor...
MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl...
J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a...
MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an...
MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had...
MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked.
“With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN